New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 306pp; black cloth. McAdoo, chief magistrate of the City of New York, compiled this volume from original sources documenting several "notorious public characters, murderers, traitors, pirates, mutineers, incendiaries, defrauders, rioters, forgers, highwaymen, footpads, pickpockets, swindlers, receivers, and extortioners," as given in... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 205pp, illus.; gray cloth. A book-length narrative poem, chronicling the lives of a midwestern family from 1800 through the Civil War and into the modern era. Illustrated with an excellent series of art deco wood engravings by H.R. Bishop. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First edition. 8vo, frontispiece, 277pp, illustrated; green cloth stamped in gilt. A social and psychological history of hair by the inventor of the "permanent wave." The unsigned dust jacket design features a wonderful streamlined-moderne image of a head of long, flowing blonde locks. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1928. First American edition. 8vo, 251pp; terracotta cloth. Exposé on South American sex-trafficking by an inventor of modern investigative journalism. Londres was an adventurous reporter, travelling the world and uncovering a variety of scandals and untold stories on topics ranging from the penal colonies in... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 255pp; red cloth. The first in the publisher's short-lived "Red and Green Mystery-Detective Series" selected by Carolyn Wells. The foredge was stained red, the top and bottom edges green, though both have become discolored; the dust jacket was designed by Hans Flato. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 287pp; textured purple cloth stamped in gilt. An anti-feminist novel by the once popular author of The Clansman (Birth of a Nation), known for his reactionary and white-supremacist politics. Uncommon in this condition. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 368pp; yellow cloth stamped in black. A nice copy of the author's third novel. Critically acclaimed in his time, most of which he spent as an expatriate in France, Updegraff has since slipped into neglect. He is perhaps best remembered today... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, [303]pp; olive cloth attractively stamped in gilt and blue. An excellent copy of this novel, which appears to have been the author's one and only book, a lighthearted account of a self-absorbed businessman and his milieu. An uncommon book, and quite... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 243pp; yellow cloth stamped in black and blind. The author's first book, a Bleiler-listed fantasy, in which an art student in the Bohemian Paris of the era finds a magic ring. Scarce, especially in jacket. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 256pp; green cloth. Exceptionally scarce first and only novel by this comparatively obscure member of the Algonquin Round Table coterie. John Peter Toohey was himself a press agent for Broadway productions and co-wrote a couple of modestly successful plays (one of... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First American edition. Small 4to, unpag.; linen-covered boards with printed labels. Not to be confused with the Oxford University Press re-issue of this book. Trery's colored prints are a charming example of English art deco. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1920. First edition. 8vo, 237pp; blue cloth stamped in gilt. An imaginative history of imperial Russia by the once highly popular novelist. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 217pp; black cloth. Hoffenstein's most popular book, comprising light verses and parodies. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1922). First edition. 8vo, 236pp; dark red cloth. Completed just before his death, Saltus's last novel, a supernatural mystery. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919. First edition. 8vo, 315pp; saffron yellow cloth. Saltus's novel was adapted into a silent film almost immediately, but the film is now considered lost. An excellent copy. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First American edition. 8vo, [167]pp; gray cloth. Two novellas by the popular English author known for his depictions of cricket. More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1935). First edition. 8vo, 318pp; black cloth with saffron endpapers. Corle's most successful novel, set among the Apache in the Colorado desert. The bold graphic dust jacket, printed in blue, black, and metallic copper, was designed by Samuel Bernard Schaeffer. More
New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, (1934). First edition. 8vo, 272pp; burgundy cloth. The author's first book, stories of the American southwest. Corle wrote extensively about California, desert cultures, and Native Americans, though is perhaps better remembered for his collaborations with Merle Armitage on the work of Igor Stravinsky. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 144pp; cloth-backed boards. An answer to H.L. Mencken's In Defense of Women by the versatile British born writer, best remembered for her successful stage adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. More
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. Small 8vo, 154pp; cloth-backed patterned boards, with matching endpapers. First novel by the Irish novelist, originally published in 1897 and re-issued the year before this publication by the Nonesuch Press. The author is described on the jacket, in a quote from... More
New York: Liveright, Inc., (1932). First American edition. 8vo, 366pp; sea-green cloth. Novel of adventure in the arctic by the author of Eskimo. Seldom found in the dust jacket, with its excellent illustration by George T. Hartmann. More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1924. First edition. 8vo, 293pp; green cloth stamped in gilt. Eighteen literary essays, including an early U.S. review in praise of Joyce's Ulysses, by the author of the 1927 A Key to the Ulysses of James Joyce, one of the first book length studies... More
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1924). First edition. 8vo, 304pp; blue cloth. Early historical novel by the Canadian-born writer who was an inspiration to Ayn Rand and is considered a founding mother of American libertarianism. The gift inscription is dated 1926, and, while we are seldom tempted to quote from... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition. 8vo, 248pp; green cloth stamped in yellow. The author's second novel, an odd tale set in an imaginary pre-modern society. More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, [349]pp; gray cloth with a striking graphic design in black and red. Dust jacket design by Irving Politzer. More